Between end of war and foundation of state--the Veterinary Faculty of the Humboldt-University of Berlin 1945-1949

The city of Berlin and the Veterinary Faculty were occupied by the Red Army in the beginning of May 1945. After tidying up and first reconstruction as well as reorganisation of the academic stuff the University of Berlin was reopened in January 1946, the semester started in May 1946. At first the number of students at the faculty ranged under 200, the number of graduates was low as well. The numerous vacant chairs could only be filled little by little, in autumn 1949 four chairs were still vacant. Academic stuff, assistants and students were mostly refusing the political system in East Germany. The only slow development upwards was sensitively disturbed by the crisis-like events in 1950/51 and 1956/57.